I almost completely missed this trick because I never gave App Twin a second thought after I switched over to using Nova Launcher, but while I was messing around with other tweaks, the ADB command I sent days before suddenly made a secondary Gmail, Solid Explorer, Chromium, and Reddit is Fun icon pop up. This time is no different, though you can breathe a sigh of relief as we won’t be needing Tasker this time around. Those of you who have been following my previous tutorials might know that I’m a huge fan of using Tasker and/or the ADB shell to discover and tweak hidden settings on your device. Here’s how it’s done.Ĭlone any App with EMUI’s App Twin Feature

Despite Huawei’s claims that App Twin only works for Whatsapp/Facebook or QQ/Wechat, it can actually work with pretty much any application on your device. Parallel Space, while demonstrating greater compatibility, is in my opinion a pretty bloated application that is slow to launch any given duplicated app.įortunately, Huawei’s App Twin feature does not suffer from either of these two problems, but for some odd reason Huawei decided to restrict the feature to so few apps. App Cloner, for instance, doesn’t work on many applications (such as most Google apps). These apps, and others like them on the Play Store, also have their own fair share of downsides, though. Any app that you duplicate through one of the Play Store alternatives isn’t tied to Huawei’s stock EMUI launcher. But most importantly, you aren’t limited to only 2 predetermined applications that Huawei has set. I would argue that by default, these third-party alternatives are superior to Huawei’s App Twin feature. There are several applications that do this same function on the Play Store some of the more popular ones include App Cloner and Parallel Space. Now, this certainly isn’t an innovative concept on the part of Huawei. This duplicate application can only exist on Huawei’s stock launcher, and when the icon is cleared from the home screen, the App Twin is deleted. You’ll see a little “2” card icon within the app icon that indicates which app you’re using – the original or duplicate. When you duplicate one of these applications, a new app icon will be created on your home screen that allows you to start the duplicated app. Owners of a European model can duplicate Whatsapp or Facebook while Chinese models can duplicate QQ or Wechat, but these are your only options by default.

App Twin, as you might expect from its name, allows you to create a duplicate application so you can log-in to two different accounts at the same time.

If you’ve recently purchased a Huawei Mate 9 or you’re one of the lucky few to partake in the EMUI 5.0 beta for some Huawei/Honor devices, then you might have heard of the new “ App Twin” feature.Įvidently, Huawei must consider this feature one of EMUI’s biggest selling points, since they stuck it in the top-most layer of the Settings application.

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